Restless Empire: China and the World
Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government. He is an ...
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The Scramble for Africa - Professor Richard J Evans FBA
In the early 1880s, informal imperial expansion gave way to formal imperial acquisitions. Between this point and the outbreak of the First World War, more ...
Gresham College
Schieffer Series: Russian Active Measures: Past, Present, and Future
Please join us for the next installment of the Schieffer Series, Russian Active Measures: Past, Present, and Future. The discussion will focus on U.S.-Russian ...
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Eisenhower, Operation TORCH, & U.S. Military Government Policy - Dr. Louis Dimarco
Dr. Louis Dimarco visited the Dole Institute for its ongoing Ft. Leavenworth Series.
The Dole Institute of Politics
Noam Chomsky - UCL Rickman Godlee Lecture 2011
Professor Noam Chomsky, UCL Rickman Godlee Lecture 2011 - Contours of global order: Domination, stability, security in a changing world. Playlist of lecture ...
UCL
Chain Your Woman to the Stove - Feminism in the 1930s | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1938 Part 2 of 4
Under the yoke of economic depression and more and more authoritarian rulers, Western women face renewed misogyny, patriarchy, and decreasing ...
TimeGhost History
The History of Empire: Exploitation And Resistance - Professor Richard J. Evans
This lecture looks at the impact of empire on the colonizers and the colonized. In Europe, ideologies of imperialism emerged, increasingly mingled with racism.
Gresham College
MasterClass Prof. Cedomir Nestorovic | Geopolitical Volatility amid COVID-19 pandemic
ESSECstaysconnected - How will the Covid-19 pandemic impact global diplomacy? Will the crisis unite the nations together or divide them further apart?
ESSEC Business School
Kuwait Program : Keynote Speech - Emerutis Professor Ghassan Salame
An international conference organized by the Kuwait Program at Sciences Po and chaired by Ghassan Salamé, Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs ...
Sciences Po
Deborah Brautigam - "The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa"
Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest? Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese claim? In the ...
USC U.S.-China Institute
US-China Relations - COVID-19 Global Impacts
Building on an already tense relationship aggravated by the trade war, will the recent War of Words between the U.S. and China lead to further escalation of ...
University of California Television (UCTV)
Putin's inspiration by Evert van der Zweerde
What makes Vladimir Putin tick? Where does he come from and why does he do what he does? And even more important: is he really as powerful as he seems?
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Accident as Repair: Kader Attia - Artist Lecture and Discussion
The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth presents: Accident as Repair: KADER ATTIA - Artist Lecture and Discussion Artist Kader Attia presents a lecture about his ...
Dartmouth
Niall Ferguson: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
Are we truly living in the first 'Networked Aged'? Niall Ferguson in his book the Square and the Tower argues that social networks are not new but actually have ...
World Affairs
Elizabeth Economy: The Future of Xi Jinping's China
Xi Jinping has created a new model of Chinese politics. He has taken unprecedented steps to consolidate his authority, has overseen the expansion of ...
World Affairs
Global Thinkers: Martin Wolf 'A Crisis of Capitalism'
On 15 May, we welcomed Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator of the Financial Times, to King's Business School to deliver a speech answering the ...
King's Business School
Migration, Agriculture, and Rural Development
The dramatic changes in the flow of migrants across international borders, as well as accelerating internal movements of rural migrants towards cities, are ...
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Developing a COVID-19 Research Agenda in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The aim of this webinar is to bring forward global expert advice for COVID-19 research priorities, offering lessons learned from past pandemics and examples of ...
American Thoracic Society
E-stonia - A startup country - VPRO documentary - 2015
In the very north-east of Europe, on the border of Russia, lies the small country of Estonia. Per capita, Estonia has the most start-ups; internet access is ...
vpro documentary
Liberalism in the Age of Trump: George Packer
In this year's Irving Howe Memorial Lecture, acclaimed author and journalist George Packer argues that the decline of liberal values helped to create the Trump ...
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Francis Fukuyama: "The Origins of the State: China and India"
Francis Fukuyama, director of the International Development Program, discussed this topic as part of his lecture series entitled, "Getting to Denmark: Where the ...
Johns Hopkins University
Franco and the Fascist March to Victory: Donald P. Wright - March 27, 2014
On the 75th anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War, Donald P. Wright of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College offers an overview of the ...
The Kansas City Public Library
Democracy: A Fragile Way of Life?
2 March 2020 | To what extent is democracy a “fragile way of life”? Does a focus on questions of style and form, as well as of democratic spaces, allow us to ...
The Graduate Institute Geneva
Is the EU doomed to fail? A conversation with the historian David Engels | Part I
Historian David Engels discusses the parallels between the Roman Republic and the European Union with Henk de Berg from The University of Sheffield.
The University of Sheffield
Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures
Sunday at the Met, November 20, 2011 Delve into the installation and commemoration rites that defined important individuals immortalized by artists in West and ...
The Met
Innovating for the clean energy economy
Which clean energy solutions are effective, and which need more work? Through explorations of household, city, and regional clean energy innovations and ...
MIT Energy Initiative
[Lecture] Ambassador Richard L. Armitage - New World disorder
The relative stability and prosperity of the world order which has prevailed since the end of the cold war has been upended, bringing a new multipolar paradigm ...
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Race and Society in Nazi Germany and the US: From Swastika to Jim Crow
"Race and Society in Nazi Germany and the US: From Swastika to Jim Crow" examined the encounter between Jewish refugee professors who escaped Nazi ...
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Chatham House Primer: National Populism
In a number of countries traditionally seen as part of the democratic, liberal international order, public polling reflects a growing tranche of the electorate feel ...
Chatham House
Seeds of the Vietnam War - James H. Willbanks
In March 1965, the first U.S. ground troops were committed in Vietnam. By 1969, that number grew to more than a half million troops. The war proved to be one of ...
National WWI Museum and Memorial
Chas Freeman ─ The United States in the New World Disorder
Americans are behaving in many ways as though we misperceive the international environment within which our country now operates. Past shifts in the world ...
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
N. Gregory Mankiw: On the Economic Ideas of the Right and the Left Today
Harvard's Greg Mankiw assess some prominent economic proposals. Click "Show more" to view chapters. For more conversations, visit ...
Conversations with Bill Kristol
4. What Happened - An Election Autopsy
In this session, participants analyze the results of the 2016 presidential election. Nate Cohn of the New York Times discusses the polls and shows graphics of ...
Stanford
The China-Russia Threat - State of the World 2020
The China-Russia Threat Moderator: Charles Davidson, Publisher, The American Interest Panelists: Vladimir Kara-Murza, Vice President, Free Russia ...
Florida International University
The Empty Throne: America's Abdication of Global Leadership
Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay present their new book, The Empty Throne: America's Abdication of Global Leadership, which argues that the world order ...
Council on Foreign Relations
Supporting Democracy in Challenging Times
For more than three decades, the United States has provided bipartisan support to secure freedom, human rights and democratic governance for countries ...
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Another World Literature: New Approaches to a Literary History of East Asia
In this talk, Haun Saussy notes that traditional Chinese definitions of literature include historical, philosophical, essayistic, and policy-oriented genres, and that ...
American Academy in Berlin
Andrew Roberts - The Legacy of the English-Speaking Peoples
Keynote address at the IPA's 2011 Foundations of Western Civilisation Symposium by historian Dr Andrew Roberts.
Institute of Public Affairs
Persophilia: Persian Culture on the Global Scene
Hamid Dabashi discussed his book, "Persophilia: Persian Culture on the Global Scene." For transcript and more information, visit ...
Library of Congress
The 2018 Stavros Niarchos Foundation Lecture with Michael Herzfeld
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Lecture in Hellenic Studies was established in 2004 in honor of the Program's sponsors. The Program had been funded by the ...
YaleUniversity
101 Facts About Iceland
Mums apparently go here very often (extremely British joke there for you), but Iceland is a Nordic country with an extremely interesting history and a hell of a lot ...
101Facts
Capitalism Is The Disease: Mike Davis on the Coronavirus Crisis
An online teach-in with Mike Davis Please join an online teach-in with renowned activist-scholar Mike Davis, author of numerous books, including The Monster ...
Haymarket Books